March
Sunday Kind of Love
Featuring:
Jericho Brown & Remica Bingham
Sunday
March 17, 2013
5-7 pm
Busboys
& Poets (14th & V)
2021 14th Street, NW
2021 14th Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20009
Hosted by:
Sarah Browning &
Katy Richey
$5 online or at the
door
As always, open mic
follows!
Co-Sponsored by Busboys and Poets
& Split This Rock
Jericho Brown was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and once worked as
the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans. The recipient of the
Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Brown is an Assistant
Professor at Emory University. His poems have appeared in journals and
anthologies including, The American Poetry Review, jubilat, Oxford
American, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Best
American Poetry, and 100 Best African American Poems. His first
book, PLEASE, won the American Book Award.
Remica L. Bingham earned an MFA from Bennington College and is a
Cave Canem fellow. Her first book, Conversion,
won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and was published by Lotus Press. Her
second book, What We Ask of Flesh, is
forthcoming from Etruscan Press in February 2013. Currently, she is the
Director of Writing and Faculty Development at Old Dominion University. She
resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children. For more information on
her work and upcoming events, please visit: www.remicalbingham.com.
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